basically programming the dx7 is too much of a headache, plus the thing weighs a million pounds and im trying to get most of my live set up to all fit on the same table sooo, the dx200 seems like an attractive alternative, just curious to see what people on here think of them

The Effects section is very useful- and the FM sound is lovely -Sounds cleaner/clearer than the DX7 and DX7II (unless you engage the "OD+AMP" in the effects section, of course!).- plus you get a nice little drum machine, with decent drum samples.

It's not multitimbral (the synth section)... so I bought two of them .

It is a nice sounding unit with a fair amount of flexibility and since you mentioned use in a live rig another nice feature that might interest you is the fact that almost all the knobs send out midi data.

I really like mine as well... but have never had a dx7 so I can't make a comparison.Unfortunately, you can't fully edit all the operators etc... from the front panel - this must be done on the computer with the yamaha editor.Fortunately, I believe the dx200 can load dx7 patches without any conversion needed.

This was my main synth in a band I used to be in and I also used to use it for improvized music a lot. Basically the dx7 engine with knobs - I never programmed it much, but live the amount of mangling you can get out of knob twiddling is immense. Its in a ridiculous kid beatbox package with a very condescending manual. Probably yamaha just wanted more milage out of existing tech and why didn't they go further? I use an fs1r now and love the fm sound, but the dx200 still rocks!

"On the following day , the sorcery undespairingly continued: I changed my series, chose other sequences, cut other lengths, spliced different progressions, and hoped afresh for a miracle in sound." (Stockhausen)

I was allways wanting to try one of these or its brother the AN. Alot have come up cheap on my local c.list.But I heard that both these units SKIP the frist note of a sequence and jump to the second when changing threw them it starts on the second note.Is this true about them or myth ? They say no op was made to fix this ?

... I heard that both these units SKIP the frist note of a sequence and jump to the second when changing threw them it starts on the second note.Is this true about them or myth ? They say no op was made to fix this ?

I had both the AN200 and the DX200 and neither of mine ever did that. I heard a lot of complaints about it though.Only thing I didn't care for - like others have said, you need a computer to get at all the editing parameters

idiotboy wrote:IIRC, the DX200 includes Yamaha's FM and AWM engines, which is great; but,I think you can only assign the FM engine to one of the four sequencer tracks with the other three going to the ASM engine.

Arent the AWM sections just drum sounds, or are there other sounds too?

Cerebral Infect wrote:The issue I see with the DX200 is the lack of a proper computer editor. And if I remember well, it didn't work well with win XP.

I liked the computer editor that was included with it and had no problems using it with Windows XP...just my $0.02 though. The one odd thing I about the editor is that when assigning envelope times the lower values (e.g. 1,2,..) gave longer envelope times and the higher values (e.g. 126, 127) gave shorter envelope times.

... I heard that both these units SKIP the frist note of a sequence and jump to the second when changing threw them it starts on the second note.Is this true about them or myth ? They say no op was made to fix this ?

I had both the AN200 and the DX200 and neither of mine ever did that. I heard a lot of complaints about it though.Only thing I didn't care for - like others have said, you need a computer to get at all the editing parameters

Does one realy have one of these that does this note skip ? Or is this a synth myth? heresay ??? This why I keep passing up a AN in my setup.Any solid info on this would be appreacited